Sentence examples for example of the old from inspiring English sources

Avocados are a classic example of the old commodity trap.

An example of the old script is available on Google Code.

Rentoul's interpretation: Lovely example of the old saying that you can disregard everything before the "but".

[1] A classic example of the old "Don't flip away, we may show a map any second now" scam.

It's a classic example of the old adage that if you don't learn from the lessons of history, you are doomed to repeat them.

I agree, but by his own lights no one need take him seriously: it's just a cobewebby example of "the old, bookish ways", after all.

The iconic London Underground map, a design classic that is easy to read if not geographically accurate, is an example of the old-world idea of a map.

A classic example of the old-style champion, says Louis Schweitzer, chairman of Renault, is Fiat before the EU forced open the Italian car market.

An even earlier example of the "old-school-tie brigade in knots over Russia" (Letters, 19 November) is that of Arthur Ransome, who reported the Russian revolution for the Daily News.

He is a classic example of the old-style regional strongmen who flourished under the PRI and, though few are quite as blatant, he would set an uncomfortable precedent if he won a showdown with Mr Fox's government.On February 15th, the federal government had backed away from its threat to send in the police.

In this sparkling French example of the old-friends-hanging-out sub-genre, the holidaying characters (played by Marion Cotillard and Francois Cluzet, among others) cover just about every imaginable relationship problem, and yet their dilemmas bubble to the surface at a natural, unforced rate, and the crises are offset by the ever-present humour.